Coast Lamps Co

Coast Lamps, Cornwall, where you will discover a charming blend of natural coast living and contemporary sophistication.

My love affair with the coast and the sea developed from childhood, there is salt in my blood – salt is a theme coursing through much of my work. The ocean and the ocean sky act as my inspiration and I’m very fortunate to each day be a part of this amazing world. I feel privileged to be doing something that I feel so passionate about and hopefully I can convey that passion to you through my work.

Five years ago I started Coast Lamps here in St Ives, Cornwall. I had a blank canvas. It was amazing fun. Cornwall is sea, coast, sky and rock. I developed a new and unique way of hand moulding stones using crushed stone, lime and polymer and these hand made and hand-washed stones became the basis of Coast Lamps. I love combining unlikely materials – playing with people’s expectations of what is usual in lamps and lighting. My work includes silk, concrete and acrylic as well as cast stainless steel and cast bronze. My lamps have a clear sculptural quality.

Nothing can be as outrageous as an Atlantic storm pounding the shore but that̢۪s the inspiration that I work with.

I like to hold things, stones, shells – to let different types of sand flow through my fingers, coarse, fine, damps sand that clings, to get annoyed but enlivened with the wind and rain driving into my face. Cornwall is often raw. Elements flow together. They flow from the natural world to the more intimate world that I create in an attempt to bring the very essence of that to the interior of your home.

But I have not only combed beaches, for many years I sailed the oceans in square riggers mostly doing film work. As a partner, first mate and marine set designer I worked with Squaresail from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean, to America.

FILM CREDITS INCLUDE: Eric the Viking, Revolution, Without a Clue, Shackleton, Last Place on Earth, Crusoe, Treasure Island, Diary of Anne Frank, Pirates of the Caribbean, Chronicles of Narnia, Carry on Columbus.